[CCAMP] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-ccamp-flexi-grid-fwk-05: (with COMMENT)

["Stephen Farrell" <[e-mail]>]

Stephen Farrell has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-ccamp-flexi-grid-fwk-05: No Objection

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COMMENT:
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- (Nearly a discuss) Section 7 refers back to RFC5920
(from 5 years ago) and RFC6163 (presumably the 3 paragraph
section 7) and also claims that there is "no substantial
reason to to expect the security considerations to be any
different." That's pretty unimpressive to be honest. Don't
you think it'd be reasonable to expect that a new
architecture, framework and set of protocols for high
speed networks should today include a thorough security
and privacy analysis done afresh and not simply referring
back to previous work? For example, is it not likely that
in some cases new IGP security primitives might be needed,
or that virtualisation and data centre trends would mean
that some additional isolation between different folks'
data was desirable or that some kind of automated key
management be finally required to be included from the
start of the design of any new control plane? (This isn't
a discuss as it's probably better to hold that kind of
discussion for a next stage when some architecture or
protocols are defined.)

- typo: trnaponders, I like it:-)